WTB cheap laptop..... Possiblly to box?

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I purchased an Asus K53TA this past summer for $450 and upgraded the ram to 8 gigs for $25 more. I tweaked the settings a bit to turn off crossfire, and lowered the CPU voltage a bit and locking at 1.8 or 2.0 ghz to keep heat down, but I was able to 5 box with it. Everything was set to Low except I had distance up two notches for my main. I didn't try any huge scale PVP as all my extra accounts at the time were Starter Editions, but for questing it was fairly smooth. The only time I had noticeable lag for one of my slaves was when visiting Orgrimmar. However that may have been more from my connection being bad than the laptop itself. Plus I was using an external monitor for my main at 1920 by 1080 instead of the laptop's native screen. Also I had the FPS on the slaves manually capped at 15 fps.

When trying it with 4 boxing I ran my main on Fair with the view distance to high. Slaves on Low, and it ran smooth for everything I did.

Sometimes newegg gets them back in stock for around $400-$420

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834230216

Generally though for a laptop, the current AMD A6/A8 series with a dedicated GPU are the best value I've seen for performance to price if you need a cheap machine.